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Custom 3D-printed models improve precision of cancer removal
Ohio State University Wexner Medical CenterRecent research shows that using custom 3D-printed models tailored to each patient can help surgeons remove oral cancers more accurately.
The quiet experiment that changed solar power
Northwestern UniversityMore than a decade ago, Northwestern chemists and materials scientists reported in Nature the first solid-state solar cell based on a halide perovskite semiconductor — an advance that ultimately helped launch one of the fastest-growing revolutions in solar energy.
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- Nature
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- U.S. National Science Foundation, DOE/US Department of Energy
Deep MARL-based resilient motion planning for decentralized space manipulator
Beijing Institute of Technology Press Co., LtdSpace manipulators play an important role in the on-orbit services and planetary surface operation whose reliability is a key issue. In the extreme environment of space, space manipulators are susceptible to a variety of unknown disturbances. Since it is difficult for the manipulator to be repaired immediately, once it fails, it will mean that it cannot complete the mission as expected, which may cause serious losses and dangers. How to have a resilient guarantee, i.e., the manipulator’s ability to resiliently recover and continue to complete tasks, in failure or disturbance is the core capability of its future development. The motion planning unit is used as the computing terminal of the manipulator’s joint motion trajectory. Compared with traditional motion planning, learning-based motion planning has gradually become a hot spot in current research. However, no matter what kind of research ideas, the single robotic manipulator is studied as an independent agent, making it unable to provide sufficient flexibility under conditions such as external force disturbance, observation noise, and mechanical failure.
First joint overview of PCR deduplication and error correction revolutionizes NGS data analysis
Higher Education PressA landmark study, titled “How error correction affects polymerase chain reaction deduplication: A survey based on unique molecular identifier datasets of short reads” recently published in Quantitative Biology reveals critical flaws in widely-used computational tools for next-generation sequencing (NGS) data analysis.
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- Quantitative Biology
AI breakthrough boosts long-range weather forecasting accuracy
KeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Researchers developed DeepMet, a new AI system that sharply improves long-range weather forecasting across the U.S. The model predicts key temperature and humidity patterns up to 45 days ahead with far greater accuracy than current systems, helping identify extreme heat and cold events earlier. DeepMet offers faster, more reliable guidance for climate preparedness and public-health protection.
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- U.S. National Science Foundation, Fengyun Application Pioneering Project, National Natural Science Foundation of China, UT AI Tennessee Initiative Seed Funds, MSRA collaborative research project
Artificial superintelligence alignment in healthcare
Osaka Metropolitan UniversityAn Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team conducted a review that examined the theoretical foundations of Artificial Superintelligence and explored how misaligned AI systems could optimize for wrong objectives, leading to patient harm and systemic failures.
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- Japanese Journal of Radiology
“It happens more than you think”: New research examines sexual violence in later life
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- Sage Open Aging
Tumor-associated macrophage-mediated delivery of nano-photosensitizer enables light-induced metabolic programming for immuno-photodynamic therapy
Higher Education PressResearch groups of Professors Weiqi Zhang, Haiyan Xu and Lin Wang from the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, reported a positively-charged dextran nano-photosensitizer (p-Dex PS) facilitates tumor-associated macrophage (TAM)-mediated delivery and sublethal light-induced metabolic reprogramming, which boosts the TAM polarization and subsequently the anticancer immune effects.
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- Protein & Cell
Efficient production of extracellular vesicles for enhanced cancer immunotherapy
Tsinghua University PressExtracellular vesicles serve as essential mediators of communication between immune cells and tumor cells, and the recent advances in artificial induction strategies offer an adaptable and efficient platform for engineering extracellular vesicles, enabling their application as next-generation strategies in cancer immunotherapy.
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- Nano Research